“We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers
have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an
electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant
civil rights/civil liberties benefits,” the executive summary said.

The President George W. Bush administration first announced
the suspicionless, electronics search rules in 2008. The President
Barack Obama administration followed up with virtually the same rules a
year later. Between 2008 and 2010, 6,500 persons had their electronic
devices searched along the U.S. border, according to DHS data.
According to legal precedent, the Fourth Amendment — the right to be
free from unreasonable searches and seizures — does not apply along the
border. By the way, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the nation’s actual border.

Did you catch that? 100 miles inland. That includes shipping ports.
That means that around 2/3rd of the nation's population, around 190
million, lives in these areas that are free of the 4th Amendment
restrictions.
The DHS has already set up 33 "internal checkpoints" deeper in the country.
The expansion of the police state in America would be mindboggling to anyone living as recently as the 1980's or 1990's. It doesn't seem to matter which political party is in power.

They established or strengthened the power of the executive to: torture at will (and create the "legal" justification for it); imprison at will, indefinitely and without trial; assassinate at will (including American citizens); kidnap at will anywhere in the world and "render" the captive into the hands of allied torturers; turn any mundane government document (at least 92 million
of them in 2011 alone) into a classified object and so help spread a
penumbra of secrecy over the workings of the American government;
surveil Americans in ways never before attempted (and only "legalised"
by Congress after the fact, the way you might backdate a check); make
war perpetually on their own say-so; and transform whistleblowing - that
is, revealing anything about the inner workings of the lockdown state
to other Americans - into the only prosecutable crime that anyone in the National Security Complex can commit.

Granted, some of these executive powers existed before 9/11. The FBI
conducted illegal surveillance of anti-war groups in the 1960's. The
government acted illegally during Watergate and Iran-Contra, but both of
these cases involved people being prosecuted and going to jail. Now the
government acting outside the law is simply expected.
Imprisoning, torturing, and killing people without due process is
"the right of Kings", not presidents. It is the domain of dictators, not
democracies.
And yet that is exactly where we find ourselves today.
The line has been crossed, and not by just a little bit.
Of course, this restriction on civil liberties only applies to the common people (much like fuedal days in Europe). If you have enough money, you can buy yourself more freedom.

The US is the world's largest prison state, imprisoning more of its citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and proportionally. It imprisons people for longer periods of time, more mercilessly, and for more trivial transgressions than any nation in the west.
This sprawling penal state has been constructed over decades, by both
political parties, and it punishes the poor and racial minorities at overwhelmingly disproportionate rates.
But not everyone is subjected to that system of penal harshness. It
all changes radically when the nation's most powerful actors are caught
breaking the law. With few exceptions, they are gifted not merely with
leniency, but full-scale immunity from criminal punishment. Thus have
the most egregious crimes of the last decade been fully shielded from
prosecution when committed by those with the greatest political and
economic power: the construction of a worldwide torture regime,
spying on Americans' communications without the warrants required by
criminal law by government agencies and the telecom industry, an
aggressive war launched on false pretenses, and massive, systemic
financial fraud in the banking and credit industry that triggered the
2008 financial crisis.

Many in the right-wing believe that only guns can protect our
liberties. Yet they never seem to question the effectiveness of this
belief.
There are more guns now than ever before, yet our liberties are fewer now than ever before.
Perhaps they are confusing liberties with something in their pants.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.Benjamin FranklinOne has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.Martin Luther King

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."Abraham Lincoln

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”James Madison